History is worth reading when it tells us truly what the attitude toward life was in the past.

A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.

Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back into the shell.

No Vermont town ever let anybody in it starve.

The actions of a human being, even of fifteen months of age, may not be without significance to a sympathetic eye.

Freedom is not worth fighting for if it means no more than license for everyone to get as much as he can for himself.

What a fearfully distracting, perplexing and heart-searching business it is to live.

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

Libraries are the vessels in which the seed corn for the future is stored.

Vermont is the only place in America where I ever hear thrift spoken of with respect.

What's the use of inventing a better system as long as there just aren't enough folks with sense to go around?

I believe in the salvation of humanity, in the future of cyanide...

We have art in order not to die of life.

Why did the 14-year old Mexican girl end up pregnant? Because her teacher told her to go do an essay.

By dint of making sacrifices, a man grows interested in the person who exacts them. Great ladies, like courtesans, know this truth by instinct.

I wanted to be a veterinarian for about a week of my life when I was a kid. But I found out about the whole euthanasia thing and I said, I can't commit to that, sorry!

Every single act of one who would lead a life of purity should be in the nature of yajna.

Ultimately, my daughter is not going to learn from what I do, not from what I say. For better or for worse. I see that everyday.

When you're over the hill, that's when you pick up speed.

God does not live in structures of stone or brick. He lives in soft hearts warm with sympathy and fragrant with universal love.

Incessant company is as bad as solitary confinement.